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Mouseion

Mouseion proper noun: an ancient institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369–282 BCE) as a place for music, poetry and philosophy, including the Library of Alexandria.

Proper noun

the Mouseion

  1. (historical) An ancient institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369–282 BCE) as a place for music, poetry and philosophy, including the Library of Alexandria.
    • These were stored at the Mouseion, a shrine to the Muses modeled after Aristotle’s Lyceum. Aristotle’s own book collection was said to be among the holdings.2026 July 8, Rose Horowitch, “The End of Reading Is Here”, in Jeffrey Goldberg, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Jul...

Forms of Mouseion

alternative formMuseum
alternative formMusaeum

Origin of Mouseion

Learned borrowing from Ancient Greek Μουσεῖον (Mouseîon).

Questions about Mouseion

What does Mouseion mean?
Mouseion means an ancient institution said to have been founded by Ptolemy I Soter (c. 369–282 BCE) as a place for music, poetry and philosophy, including the Library of Alexandria.
What part of speech is Mouseion?
Mouseion is a proper noun.

Words near Mouseion in the dictionary

  1. mousehawks
  2. mousehole
  3. mouseholes
  4. mouseholing
  5. mousehood
  6. Mouseion
  7. Mouseketeer
  8. Mouseketeers
  9. mousekin
  10. mousekind
  11. mousekins

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